uglodoh:

It is Togolese food. The ewa agoyin means Togolese beans.
It is more popular in the South West because of the population of the Togolese.

Wrong. Ewagoyin is Yoruba food, Yorubaland and Yoruba people are in Togo and Benin Republic as well, right next to the border of Yoruba states in Nigeria. Its a Yoruba dish that has nothing to do with country, last time I checked Togolese isn't an ethnicity and there is no ethnic group called Agoyin by the way. Some people just love spreading misinformation online.

Phoen1X:
Your "oba"(a costodian of yoruba history and culture) has spoken,...if you like, carry igbo matter for head like an agbo seller.

Read my Post. Meanwhile I'm waiting for you to remove the Yoruba majority from Nigeria, since you feel crazy and don't understand real history+ allegory. I'm waiting o.

This wasn't what was said. 2. Even if such was said, it's wrong by all historical accounts 3. Edo/Benin Royal bloodline and kingship was started by a Yoruba prince called Oronmiyan who came from Ife. This means all of Edo royal line in Yoruba. So the shared Yoruba origins can make them connected.This is why Edo kings used to be buried in Yorubaland. 4. Aworis are the oldest inhabitants of Lagos and they're Yoruba people. Then next are the Ijebus, Egba... Who are also.... Yoruba people. Last but not the least, come and Chase Yoruba people out of Lagos then na, oh, you can't... you can only make propaganda from your phone... I thought as much.

nonhuman:
the obvious cannot be denied bro
Show me a wealthy Yoruba man without an Igbo wife
If you can show me 5 wealthy Yoruba men with a Fulani wife I will show you 50 rich Yoruba richmen with Igbo wives

Oh is this the new igbo Nyamiri fantasy? From you wuz jews and sheit to this and we wuz industrious. I laugh. Abeg keep your Chika orinacuhh and Uzo Aduba looking Women to yourself, we don't want. Only mumu men, unknown mumu men like Gbadegbo's father marry a bearded yam leged mkupu mirri, because of "free love" and pity. Have you seen his mother's face? Which rich men are marrying that and Mpuku miri. Anyways we don't want Nyamiri, like the Hausas and Fulanis.

JikanBaura:
All NIGERIAN TRIBAL GROUPS CLOTHING WERE INSPIRED BY HAUSA AND KANURI TRADITIONAL CLOTHING , IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THUS THE NEED TO GIVE HAUSA AND KANURI THE CREDIT THEY DESERVED,

EVEN THE IGBOS THAT RAPS ONLY A PIECE OF GARMENT ON THEIR BODY IT'S THE BRITISH WHOM GIVE THEM OUR GARMENTS TO REPLACE THEIR LEAVES MADE PANTIES. NOTE THIS IS JUST HISTORICAL FACT AND INTEND NOT TO INSULT ANYONE BECAUSE EVEN ADAM WAS ONECE NAKE UNTILL GOD GIVES HIM WISDOM TO CREATED GARMENT. AS HAUSA I ALSO WISH THEIR EXIST A HISTORICAL RECORDS WHEN WE WORE NAKE. IT REALLY SAD THEIR ARENT ANY.

Nah many were inspired by the Yoruba. The Gele alone is evident.

What a stupid question. But not surprising for some animal on Nairaland. Every other Ethnicity on the planet has subgroups, but it's only the Yoruba that it should be surprising that has them huh. Logic of a Yoruba hating Nigerian bigot. Yes all they're all Yoruba. Just like how the subgroups of Fulani, Igbo, Hausa, Oromo. If Yoruba didn't have subgroups, it would be a fake Ethnicity or a contested Ethnicity. For example that's why Amhara who don't have subgroups are contested as an ethnic group while Oromos who have subgroups are an obvious Ethnicity. I hope I've answered your mumu question.

Xchii:
i hope you login more on this forum 👌😂... I love your vawulence, after election these nyamiris will surely hear from us... Many of them are on Tiktok trying to claim everything they copy from us. It's a known fact Yoruba women civilized those naked ibo women but today they have pages pushing propagandas m

Facts o. I saw it, I laugh taya. Fighting for their lives, embarrassing 😂. I'll be here more 🤣👌

AreaFada2:
Well those who defended themselves against colonisation or fought Biafra war or other agitators saw what you are seeing now.

Nobody aside the elites benefits from current Nigerian arrangement.
Imagine Yoruba is an official language along English. More cohesion and better national identity. Same in East and North.

Gradually more people will see that a forced contraption with variously intuitively tribalists people is no recipe for making a great nation.

No matter how long the elites sponsor the charade, the chicken will come home to roost one day.

The problem is people think there's a problem with Tribalism. That's a problem with adopting words void of true meaning. Bigotry and prejudice is a problem, Tribalism is not. What we call Tribalism is sometimes ethnic patrotism, which is as relevant, if not more, than nationalism or country patrotism.

It should not be confused for bigotry like something like refusing to serve someone from another Ethnicity at a restaurant, something which doesn't even happen in Nigeria. The problem with Biafra is that is another Nigeria 2.0 for the South East and South South. If it was an ethnic Igbo struggle, it would have made sense. But many Ijaw, Efik, Uhrobo, etc fought against Biafra. One Ijaw general wanted something called Naija-Delta republic but was blocked and jailed by Ojukwu.

An ethnic Igbo struggle for Biafra makes more sense, Like Yoruba Nation struggle is just for a nation of Yoruba land and Yoruba descents and linages. All three languages should be official languages in Nigeria, on paper. All regions should be free to conduct politics and most media in their Language of the region.

It's good how the Yoruba have a thriving native language movie industry speaking Yoruba, the Hausas/other Northerns who speak Hausa have their own native language speaking Industry that's supported by them too. I've seen some Igbo native language films it's few and underdeveloped compared to those two above. Instead some movies that should be Igbo to captivate the essence are speaking English or Pidgin. Meanwhile we all have generally Nollywood with English that should be enough. The minorities hardly have a native language industry though we have the funds for them. I've seen some Efik language films but it's few and not a centralized industry. That's not a good phenomenon. Nigeria and the disorganizedness of it should not disorganize you and your true essence.

There's no purpose throwing what makes you special for maintaining a Nigeria. Let's not talk about the potential this forever developing nation could be with proper prioritization. The elites are the only ones enjoying this contraption and not seeing the problem. If everyone is free to organize how they feel, resources would go round better, Nigerians as a whole would even be more creative.

I don't like the country, most of the people are annoying. I'm proud of my ethnicity, that's it. My ethnicity, Yoruba, has enough historical and present day achievements so I don't feel the need to cling to a Nigerian identity or a regional one to feel good. Sure, Nigerians vibe together, but it should be more than that for you to hold onto. I get annoyed at people burying Yoruba achievements and identity under 'Nigerian'. If Nigeria was like the Uk with several sovereign nations and identities within, I would much prefer it. That's if seperating is not an alternative anytime soon. For example, Scotland is different from Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Scotland is country for the Scots Ethnicity, N.Ireland for the Irish Ethnicity who didn't join The totally seperate country of the republic of Ireland, Wales for the Welsh, England for the English. Even these countries within the UK may seperate from the UK as an entity if they vote for it, but their current aggrement is better than our shody Federalism. Emi ti so temi o.

Xchii:
I just checked your replies and I can only summarize how brutal you are😭🙌🏾. I hope you engage and put these flesh eating Osu miscreants in their place. We civilized these heathens.

I only know how to give vawlence for their lies based on their insecurity and inferiority complex. But it's all the truth, and even they know it, though they love to hide from it🤷. They should give us awards and kiss our feet for civilizing them, if they were greatful people. No lies and ego soothing on Nairaland anymore, that's my campaign promise 😂.

Yoruba Women and traditional culture is just top tier fr

Anuola12:

This is a really good picture. It's shows Igbo woven fabrics, accessories made of brass, and the style ppl wore back then. Judging ppl by colonial standards, and sexualizing women's bodies in ways they did not at that time only reflects you and your values, has nothing to do with the women in the picture.

That was actually mostly imported back then too lol, from the Ijaws and who in turn imported from the Yorubas in trading, the Igbos got many basic fabrics from their neighbors or other foreign places lol. They did practice and mimick some . No one is sexualizing them, more giggling. Traditional Igbo culture and attire is just like the Zulu, Luo , Kikongo, Efik-Ibibio, Kikuyu and other more nude cultures in Africa, nothing exactly wrong with it, but it can be funny for people with more covered up cultures like the Malinke, Akan, Yoruba, Somali, Amhara...

Yes oh

They're now called... Jamaicans

... okay oh

You tell me, have you seen on before ?

It's not "cultural nudity" just photographic nudity in order to see the tatoos as they're covered up in their culture, but these old women don't mind showing them for informative reasons. They're nice tatoos but are not done anymore and are visual relics of the past on the bodies of those old ladies who had it done when young.

Edeyoung:



Stop saying rubbish make bottle nor go land for your head

Shush abeg

samuk:


Force marriages hardly last long, it's better people buy into group classifications than being forced. Today, most people from different nations wants to move to America or western europe to become their citizens compared to moving to any other nation. These people often celebrate their citizenships in these abducted nations with prides.

It's not every tribes that are happy to be identified as Yoruba today were once classified as Yorubas but these tribes such as the Ijebus are very happy to be part of the larger Yoruba conglomerate. On the other hand, the Yorubas will want to have the Benins as part of the Yoruba nation but the Benin/Edo are too well established in history and sees itself as the father of all to want to be a part of any tribe.

Igbo should rather deploy their energy and talent towards building a nation everyone will be proud to be part of rather than this force marriages of claiming tribes that are not interested in being Igbo.

Igbos help to build others cities such as Lagos and Abuja that everyone wants to run to and associate with but you can not find any city in the east comparable to PH and you want the indigines of PH to be proud to be Igbo. You have to be a great nation to claim others or for others to claim you. The Igbo should first work on her greatness.

Whilst Igbo/Biafra is fixated on claiming Ikwerre by fire by force, there are still Igbos in the east that claims Benin, Igala, Idoma and other ancestry.

Igbos didn't develop Lagos or Abuja, Yoruba and Hausa did respectfully, you naked savage swinging tits and dangling joysticks primitives are so insecure in your none relevance in history that you spew lies to give yourself some relevance and meaning. Pathetic! When you're not claiming Jews like some cultural Inferior imbeciles, you're claiming developing another man's land while you can't ever develop yours? Even if your lie was true Nigeria is still a glorified third world country, so it makes you look even more stupid. It's okay igbos, to be naked dancing Zulu tribes men , no need to claim other people's achievements, lands, culture, Attires, foods, etc. Jeez.

We Yoruba Muslims can't deny the fact that Yoruba people were immigrants from Togo who lived under the Great Benin Kingdom, the Benin kingdom colonised and gave us our first civilisation,

You're a non Yoruba dirty troll monkey. And Yorubas are Christian, Muslim and traditionalists not one religion. Yoruba civilized the the jungle bini-Edos and even gave them a name.

Edeyoung:



You're mad get out of here drunkard

Or go back and read from the beging of this thread

We are discussing if the benin-ife relationship existed at all and found out it never did you're saying some entirely stupid

Then why are you crying. It's always you dumb shits discussing your copiums, along with Nyamiri, in this cursed colonial entity called Nigeria.

AutomaticMotors:
Even to this day see how easy it is for Yorubas at their Core to welcome foreign influences with so much Joy and vigour but it is hard for them to believe they welcomed a Benin prince oduduwa

Samuk
AreaFada2

Yorubas are the most ethno pure group in Nigeria. The Arewas, are all influenced by each other's foreign influence, so as the Igbos, Edos, Efik, etc with each other's foreign inputs. Oduduwa was a Yoruba prince. Edo-Binis were and still remain an irrelevant group aside from the bronze work taught to them by Yoruba Smith's. Bini was also a name ascribed to your people by the Yorubas, as Ile-Ibinu😂 (angry land). Mind you, y'all were several irreligious ethnicites, and still are today. The Bini's have nothing and so are always seeking clot from the superior Yorubas. I'll understand too, if I was like you 😂🤷.

Not only is it false, only stupid people think an ethnic of people descend from a man, not only is it unscientifical, it belongs to mythology, and the same mythology isn't even believed by most myth keepers. Also, the Yoruba are an ancient group and with large number, they have birthed many ethnicites, including the Edo, not the other way around. The Yorubas were also kind enough to teach their culture and influence, like teaching of the bini bronzes and other arts and crafts.

Aboguede:
Igbos use similar too. Igbos call it akwa'ete

Looks nothing like 'Akwete'. Btw 'Akwete' is the name of a town not the name of a cloth, this town makes a mimic of Ijaw Ikaki cloth, which in turn is a mimic of the Yoruba Aso Olona cloth. And for the up and down female ensemble, it's a crop top kind of thing and a wrapper, a style common in several cultures.

Igbo. The person who said Yoruba is on drugs. I don't know if he is a non Yoruba troll, because there are many, or a super proud and fatalistic Yoruba who thinks Yorubas aren't reading in Yoruba enough as compared to... what group? Anyways. Yoruba is far becoming a dead language, not in a million years, the majority of Yorubas and even plenty none Yorubas speak it, even outside Nigeria. You even have Brazilians speaking Yoruba who are centuries removed or not even having any Yoruba ancestry. Yorubas are proud of their languages while some other groups run away from their languages.

Igbo for example is a language that has been classified as on the verge of dying . You get incidents like Real housewives of Lagos where chioma an igbo is angry at Iyabo for speaking Yoruba to her while dissing (though she is in Yoruba land) but chioma can't speak igbo and responds in English, lamenting. Also languages of minorities like Isoko, some edo, are even spoken less and less.

There was this video on hausa literary culture dying because there are less hausa literature printed and people not reading. Yoruba has more literary and general Yoruba readers. Most Nigerian languages are not typed out as much, but most can read them and understand what's been said lmao, and there are newspapers in Yoruba, and i suppose igbo and hausa. One of the things that stop people from typing out in their native languages in Nigeria online is because of the ethnic diversity and therefore the accusations of "tribalism" if you just for example tweet in a certain language and your target audience is country/world wide.

This is unlike countries with close mutually understandable languages like zulus and xhosa that everyone there speaks or countries with one main language like swahili speaking Kenya, Tanzania; where constantly tweeting in one language isn't an hindrance or can be really side eyed as "tribalism". Though all these are changing online, and there are many hausas and Yorubas who are okay with restricting their own online audience by speaking or writing in their languages. It's all good either style.

IamAtikulate:
Nri is older than all Southern kingdoms including the Sokoto Caliphate.

How sure are you that other tribes didn't copy their wear from Igbos.

So what makes you think that those taught Ife iron smelting (Nri) and has one of the most developed indigenous fabric industry (Akwatte) borrowed from tribes that came to meet them already existing.

If you don't know history, we do.

Igboukwu bronze art is over 100 years older than Ife and about 200 years older than Bini. So who should be copying each other?

Lmao the copium is real for you. Actual history instead of your cope.

Jameseddi1:


All what you said was documented by Emaka in the year 2005

Lmao stop eet

IamAtikulate:
Nri is older than all Southern kingdoms including the Sokoto Caliphate.

How sure are you that other tribes didn't copy their wear from Igbos.

So what makes you think that those taught Ife iron smelting (Nri) and has one of the most developed indigenous fabric industry (Akwatte) borrowed from tribes that came to meet them already existing.

If you don't know history, we do.

Igboukwu bronze art is over 100 years older than Ife and about 200 years older than Bini. So who should be copying each other?

Drop the weed you are smoking, i don't care for delusional statements. Answer the question and stop being a class clown.

And the Sokoto Caliphate is in the north. Ife (Yoruba) iron smelting and art predates others in the Niger-area and is known for its exquisiteness. Akwette came about rather late (19th century) and was modeled after fabric sold by the ijebu Yorubas and the Portuguese to the igbos, all this is well documented.

irrefragable:
I can smell amala and gbegiri all over this thread.

It a Lovely smell. Now I'm hungry.

Shiver99:
....

What is Yoruba moi moi doing there, are you confused?

Fahdiga:
Buhari trouser

When will you ever be serious?